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May 6

'World Cocktail Day' 🍸 13th May



Here is a short quiz to help celebrate 'World Cocktail Day' on 13th May.


Ask members what their favourite tipple is, or was?

If they were to have a cocktail, what would they choose?

Have members a favourite pub or bar?


After the quiz and playing the music tracks, have members make and enjoy mocktails. Have some prepared ingredients ready to hand.




1. Name this actor who starred in the 1998 movie 'Cocktail'?

Name some of his other movies?




2. Which berry distinctively flavours gin? What did Londoners used to call it?

What natural 'medicine' does tonic water contain?



3. Which ingredient is required to make a 'Pink Gin'?

It is made in Trinidad. Where is that?




4. Which cocktail is associated with 'Wimbledon'?

Which fruit is also enjoyed there?




5. Which cocktail do many of us enjoy at Christmas?

What are the four natural ingredients of this drink (before it is mixed with lemonade)?




6. Name this creamy cocktail?

Which two fruits is it made from?




7. In which city was the 'Bellini' invented?

Which fruit is it made with?




8. Which country does 'Sangria' come from?

What does the word 'Sangria' mean?




9. What are the two ingredients of a 'Bucks Fizz'?

Which year did 'Buck's Fizz' win the 'Eurovision Song Contest' & with which song?









10. Name this cocktail which has a girl's name? (It has salt around its rim and a slice of lime is sucked after it.)

In which country did it originate?




11. What is the name of this 'Cuban Highball'?

Which herb is it strongly flavoured with?




12. How does James Bond like his 'Martini'?

Name the actor?




13. What makes a 'Dirty Martini'?

What are the olives stuffed with?




14. What is the name of this savoury cocktail?

Which two sauces does it contain as ingredients?




15. What is the name of this 'Old' Bourbon based cocktail?

In which US state did Bourbon originate?




16. What three ingredients make a 'Black Russian'?

What makes a 'White Russian'?




17. Which spirit makes an 'Irish Coffee'?

What other Irish cream alcoholic liquor might you enjoy "On the rocks"?




18. What was the Queen's favourite cocktail?

What is its other name?




19. What are non-alcoholic cocktails called?




20. This cocktail is called a (something) sunrise?

Which red fruit based liquid is added to give it the effect & what fruit is it made from?










21. Name the actors?

What were they drinking?




22. What is the name of the 1942 movie which contains the line "Of All The Gin Joints In All The Towns In All The World, She Walks Into Mine." ?

& Which actor is pictured here?




23. Name these two actors enjoying a 'Manhattan'?

Which 1959 movie is this still from?




24. Name this Hollywood actress drinking a 'White Angel'?

Which 1961 movie is this photo from? & What was her character's name?





25. Name the actor?

Name the 1981 movie? & Who starred as his butler?




26. Name the TV sitcom?

Name the bar manager and the actor who played him?




27. Name these two characters enjoying a 'Cosmopolitan'?

Name the TV series? & Name the actors?




28. Name this Hollywood actor?

Name the 2013 movie?




29. Name the TV sitcom?

Name the characters & actors?




30. Name this 1977 drama about a 'Party'?

Name the actress in the red dress?




31. Here are some cocktail foods they might have eaten in this 1970s party. Can you name them all?





32. Here are some additional classic drinks. How many can you name?






Here are some additional songs?




33. What is the main ingredient of rum?



34. Where would you find Copacabana Beach?



35. In a pub or club, what are the usual times for 'Happy Hour'?



36. What is a 'Virgin Cocktail'?




PUB SONGS SINGALONG



Here are a few pub songs for members to sing along with. There are loads more to choose from on YouTube ...







MAKING MOCKTAILS








ANSWERS


1. Tom Cruise / 'Top Gun', 'Jerry McGuire', 'Mission Impossible', 'Jack Reacher', etc


2. Juniper / Mother's ruin / Quinine


3. Angostura Bitters / Caribbean


4. 'Pimms Cup' / Strawberries & cream


5. 'Snowball' (Advocat) / Brandy, egg yolks, vanilla essence & sugar


6. 'Pina Colada' / Coconut & Pineapple


7. Venice / Peach


8. Spain / 'Bloodletting'


9. Orange Juice & Champagne / 1981


10. 'Margarita' / Created in Acapulco, Mexico


11. 'Mojito' / Mint


12. "Shaken not stirred!" / Daniel Craig


13. Olive Oil / Pimento


14. 'Bloody Mary' / Worcestershire & Tabasco sauces


15. 'Old Fashioned' / Kentucky


16. Vodka, Coffee liquor & Coke / Cream


17. Irish Whiskey / 'Bailey's Cream'


18. Gin & Dubonet (otherwise known as 'Gin & It')


19. Non-alcoholic cocktails


20. 'Tequila Sunrise' / Grenadine, which is made from pomegranate


21. Leonard Rossiter & Joan Collins / 'Cinzano Bianco'


22. 'Casablanca' / Humphry Bogart


23. Tony Curtis & Marilyn Monroe / 'Some Like It Hot'


24. Audrey Hepburn / 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' & Miss Holly Golightly


25. Dudley Moore / 'Arthur' & John Gielgud


26. 'Cheers' / Sam - Ted Danson


27. 'Sex In The City' / Carrie Bradshaw / Sarah Jessica-Parker & Samantha Jones / Kim Cattrell


28. 'The Great Gatsby' / Leonardo Di Caprio


29. 'Absolutely Fabulous' / Jennifer Saunders / Edina Monsoon & Joanna Lumley / Patsy Stone


30. 'Abigail's Party' / Alison Steadman


31. Prawn cocktail, cheese & pineapple on cocktail sticks, cocktail sausages

Bird's 'Angel Delight', fruit cocktail, sherry trifle

Sandwiches (which is your favourite), Vol au vents, 'Salt & Shake Crisps' (rememebr these?)

Peanuts, pretzels, sausage rolls

Arctic roll, fondue, quiche lorraine


32. Babycham, Creme de menthe, Mateus Rose

Schweppes tonic, Camp coffee, Carlsberg

PG Tips, Blue Nun, Lucozade

Watneys Party Seven, Newcastle Brown, Guinness


33. Sugar Cane


34. 4-6pm


35. Rio De Janero


36. Non alcoholic mocktails






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